Busy times
February 5th 2007 -
It’s been a very busy couple of weeks, so I’ll just summarise. Life is excellent.
Oh, and some stuff happened. Like (for example) some scumbag spammer was using this very weblog (and filmforensics, and lexifab) to forward spam, thanks to out-of-date wordpress software. It got our domain name host very cross with us, because we were consuming huge amounts of CPU and causing the server to repeatedly crash. Fortunately, they let me upgrade to the latest wordpress, rather than trashing the whole thing, which, in their position, I’d have been sorely tempted to do. This happened in a blitz of emails and frantic activity on Saturday night. That’s the kind of wacky fun I get up to on weekends nowadays.
You’re sick of archery, right? I’m not. I’ve been going regularly, twice a week, and I’ve been rapidly improving too. I finally got used to 38lb bow weight, and because that was as far as those limbs were going to go, I upgraded the limbs to the next weight up. Now I’m drawing 40lb, and the arrow is hitting the target with a real snap. The new limbs are considerably lighter and seem to really give the arrows the hurry-up signal; I can see them bending back and forth as they fly toward the target. I need stronger arrows. I also added two more flanges to the bow, which steady it against lateral movement, and immediately got better scores; very gratifying, I’d hate to upgrade something and not have any difference! On Tuesday I managed an unofficial “All Gold” at 40m range (All Gold is all the arrows in the yellow 9-and-10 area; the best I’d previously managed was 20m), and just to prove it wasn’t a fluke, I managed it again on Saturday morning. I won that day’s competition. And since I only just upgraded the limbs, I went back on Sunday and shot until I couldn’t shoot no more. It was great. Now my arms feel like lead and I can barely stay awake.